On a cool, sunny, mid-April day, the cheerful redbuds and other flowering trees amid the sprawling labs here on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) main campus belied the pervasive gloom. Nearly 3 months into President Donald Trump's administration, NIH's in-house scientists and other workers were reeling from mass layoffs of colleagues; the removal of leaders; and limits on travel, communication, and purchasing that have shut the agency off from the world, hamstrung experiments, and crushed the community's spirits. On that spring day, a senior scientist lamented that two star colleagues in his institute were heading back to their native China from NIH, abandoning an institution that had always drawn talent from around the world. "I want to cry," he said. Another pointed to the retirement the previous day of a noted NIH nutrition scientist who said the agency had censored his publications and interactions with the media.
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